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Can the arts actually improve health care? Kurt Andersen gets some answers from Jill Sonke, director of the Center for the Arts in Healthcare at the University of Florida. She explains how the arts have been carving out a place in the healing process.
(Originally aired: December 10, 2010)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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